Chuck: A Buy More Christmas

Chuck: "Chuck Versus the Santa Claus"

Just the highlights:

• The Buy More-ians commenting (and betting) on the outcome of a car chase reminds me of first season Alias.
• These elf outfits the poor Buy More employees have to wear are awful. Poor Morgan in the yellow tights!
• Ellie: "So my present to my fiance is a ticket to death?"
• Chuck: "This store has a very strict no-bravery policy."
• General: "It's an electronics store, not Basra. Get it under control, Major!"
• Carl Winslow from Family Matters!!!
• That is a terrible picture of Ned.
• Ellie: "A lot of people get by with 9 toes."
  Jeff: "I'm getting by fine with 8!"
• Jeff: "Yes, I'd like to speak to Prisoner 20158 a.k.a. Mom."
• Why doesn't Ellie have the bracelet that her dad gave her mom when she gave birth to Ellie? Maybe she doesn't want it because she doesn't like the dad?
• Ned: "You've been a really good friend to me, Chuck, so I'm going to let your girlfriend go."
  Chuck: "NO!"
  Jeff: "Ouch!"
  Lester: "It's going to be a cold Christmas at the Bartowski house!"
  Buy More girl: "Oh no he didn't!"
• I knew this hostage negotiator was going to be in the Intersect. Saw that one coming for miles.
• Oh no, Fulcrum is all over this situation. Ugh.
• Oh no, now Fulcrum finally knows that the Intersect is in Chuck's head!
• Ned doesn't find anything suspicious about all the boys huddling up and putting their hands in the middle and saying "break!"
• Oh poor Lester! He took quite the kick!
• I knew Morgan would save the day. He usually does, despite is reputation for being a do-nothing.
• Where's Casey? Why was Sarah in the tree lot alone with the Fulcrum guy? Casey went in there with her. Is he easily distracted by a good Fraser fir?
• I guess Sarah doesn't have much confidence in the CIA being able to keep Fulcrum from breaking an agent out of their detention facility, huh? If the situation is that bad, maybe they should just beef up their security.
• The reunion between Big Mike and Carl Winslow was adorable.
• Oh, poor Morgan.
• Doesn't Sarah notice the look of sheer terror that Chuck keeps giving her? She's not a very perceptive spy...
• Whoa, this episode was actually kind of heavy.
  

The bad news: no new Chuck until February 22nd?!?! That's kind of harsh, especially since Chuck has been flat-out tearing it up this season.